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2024 SPORTS CALENDAR

THURSDAY 7th MARCH - NRL TIPPING COMP

The Earlwood Social Golf & Euchre Club, a magnet for under-performing golf and euchre players from Earlwood and surrounds, is again hosting Fatcat's innovative 1. 'NRL Tipping Competition With A Difference'.  An $80 entry fee, which must be paid prior to the start of the competition, ensures participants a season of weekly angst.

There are a few things that make this competition stand apart from all the others.  The first is so very simple and yet fiendishly difficult - you don't make a selection in every game.  WTF !?!  On a normal weekend, you 'only' need to pick 2. 6 winners from any of the 8 games.  These 6 picks are known as your scratch selections.

Second, another class of selections is added to the mix - handicap selections.  The underdog in each game is given a points start and you must select a further 4 winners, again from any of the 8 games, taking the starts into account.

Besides the major prizes, there are 3. 11 opportunities during the season to win some cash.  And finally, Fatcat conducts an entertaining, professional and most importantly a transparent competition as evidenced by the fact last year nearly half of the tipsters (49 of 105) had been playing for 20 years or more and 64 had been involved for at least 10 years.

1. Although sharing sporting, pseudo-celebrity, gambling interests and greatly admiring the now defunct charity's business acumen and chutzpah, Fatcat's 'NRL Tipping Competition With A Difference' was regrettably never associated with The Shane Warne Foundation.  However, in a step up from registered charity status, the Earlwood Securities Exchange has accepted our bona fides as an accredited Tier 1 Ponzi Scheme

2. Too easy to just pick 6 scratch winners?  Over a select period of 21 weeks last season and with 105 tipsters each round there were only 19 occassions when all 6 selections won i.e. less than 1% per round

3. Based on the 2023 competition

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SATURDAY 18th MAY - THE ALWAYS LEAVE YOUR HAT IN THE LION'S DEN TOUR

Like every one of the past 35 years, the ESG&EC will soon pack up it's bag of tricks, multiple decks of Queen's Slipper playing cards, golf sticks and 4. Scanlen's footy cards and travel up to the NSW Central Coast to conduct it's week-long festival of sport and provide solace and cheer to the 5. good burghers of The Entrance.

To assist players with their preparation, the club offers voluntary but extremely popular pre-tournament 1, 2 or 3 day sea-level acclimatisation and hydration programs run by the self-accredited industry leader in hydration theory (but certainly not practice), The Shearman Institute.

4. Visit the 'NRL Tpping' area of this website to see our extensive collection of 1980 Scanlens footy cards

5. Not to be confused with Jose-Mumma Olazabal, a rather bad burgher

MONDAY 20th MAY - WORLD SERIES OF GOLF

The feature tournament of The Always Leave Your Hat In The Lion's Den Tour, the World Series of Golf is the ESG&EC's premier event.  It is played over 4 rounds (2 teams and 2 individual days) at accredited courses on the World Series roster - Gosford, Wyong, Kooindah Waters, Everglades, Toukley, The Springs and Shelly Beach.

Defending champion Garry Mize will headline the expected international field of *Kipper Parnevik, *Seve Hemosteros, *Jose-Mumma Olazabal, Rich Kent, Henney Stenson, *Peard Fulke, *Davidson Love III, Muzzy Zoeller, *Hunter Meehan, *Java Haas, *Edwardo Romero, Sir Dick Faldo, *Cavey Pavin, Bourkie Baird, *Soldier Montgomerie, *Trent Strange, *Notah Kelly III, *Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson and *Tubby Waldorf (*past champion).

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WEDNESDAY 22nd MAY - EUCHRE WORLD SERIES

The lesser tournament of the week, the World Series of Euchre is played mid-week at The Entrance Euchredome.  The knock-out event is held after Wednesday's races and begins with the all important draw for partners conducted under the Blue '6 Card' Sheedy B.Eu (Hons) protocol.  '6 Card', who threw in his hand for the final time in September 2023, was the Earlwood Euchre University's professor emeritus.  According to the wily old matchmaker's protocol, last year's winners, Seve Hemosteros and Edwardo Romero, will start at long odds to team up let alone go back to back.

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SATURDAY 31st AUGUST - NEWTOWN REUNION DAY

Newtown's final home game of the season against the Warriors doubles as the Jets (and Bluebags) official reunion day.  A dwindling number of the stars from the 60's, 70's and 80's will be there - or at least those who:

• reside in a nursing home with a courtesy bus;
• are waiting on a judicial verdict in a high profile murder case;
• nearing the end of their custodial sentence, have been granted weekend release; and/or
• are still on the run from law enforcement agencies.

The ESG&EC is always well represented at this annual gathering, meeting at hipster heaven, the Henson Park Hotel, for a pre-game aperitif and watching the match (with a rare 12 noon kick-off) from the Lee Harvey Oswald grassy knoll adjacent to the King George V Memorial Grandstand and kiosk.

OCTOBER - MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

Dating back to 1989, The Championship is the ESG&EC's second major tournament.  Once famously described in Federal Parliament as ".. combining the pomp, ceremony and tradition of a British royal coronation with the appalling drunken behaviour of Munich's Ocktoberfest patrons ..", the tournament continues to draw record fields and boisterous crowds to the challenging Cooks Peninsula links course, the R&A Marrickville.

The defending champion, *Dick Faldo, headlines the expected international field of *Kipper Parnevik, Seve Hemosteros, Garry Mize, *Java Haas, *Grantief Goosen, Boo Boo Weekley, *Peard Fulke, *Bourkie Baird, *Muzzy Zoeller, Berman DeChambeau, Karrie White, *Davidson Love, *Edwardo Romero, Thongchai JD, *Bluey Dunk, *Ford Funk, *Soldier Montgomerie, Hunter Meehan, Danny White Shark, Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson, *Tubby Waldorf, *Notah Kelly III, Lewis Oosthuizen and Ralphy McIlroy competing for the prestigious Stephen Angry Anderson Trophy (*past champion).

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